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Zoonotics and Climate Change

by Oscar Serpell
Posted on April 11, 2020April 13, 2020

How does climate change affect our risk of zoonotics (animal-to-human epidemics)?

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For Hispanic Heritage Month, we will be telling you about people from Latin America who made a difference in the History and Science of Vaccination. First up, Dr. Eduardo Licéaga, who introduced the rabies vaccine to Mexico back in the late 1800s. He also served as President of the American Public Health Association (@americanpublichealth)

Our social media avatar for September is Dr. Katlin Karikó, whose work in mRNA technology has given us two of the three licensed vaccines against the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anti-mask protests are so 1918… See why on our blog. Link in the bio.

For quite some time now, anti-vaccine activists have been stating that vaccination (compulsory or not) is akin to violating the Nuremberg Code. What is that code? And why would vaccination violate it? SPOILER ALERT: It doesn't mean what anti-vaccine activists think it means. Link in our bio...

In most of the world, being vaccinated is a personal choice. Make that choice while being fully informed on the history and science of vaccination. Visit our main site for historical information. Visit our blog for current events put into historical context.

Smallpox was eradicated (erased, wiped out, extinguished, ended, defeated, pwned) in 1980 through the use of a safe and effective vaccine. Do you know the three (3) characteristics a virus needs to have for it to be eradicated? No? Go read our site. Link in bio!

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